Haron Amin

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Haron Amin
Afghan Ambassador to Japan
In office
April 30, 2004 – April 30, 2009
PresidentHamid Karzai
Succeeded byEklil Ahmad Hakimi
Personal details
Born
Mohammad Haron Amin

(1969-07-19)19 July 1969[1]
Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Died14 February 2015(2015-02-14) (aged 45)
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.

Mohammad Haron Amin (

September 11, 2001.[2]

A consistent presence in American media prior to the

ambassador to Japan on 30 April 2004.[5]

Born in

Tajik family fled Afghanistan one year after the Soviet invasion of 1979, eventually settling in the U.S.[2]

He returned to his home country in 1988 to fight with the

Ahmed Shah Massoud, who assigned Amin to Afghanistan's embassy in Washington in 1990. Amin worked for the foreign ministry in various capacities until the government's fall to the Taliban in 1996.[6] At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Amin was serving as a diplomat of the Afghan mission to the United Nations.[citation needed
]

Amin was distinguished in 2002 as one of 77 "People for the Future" in

St. John's University in 2005, and later earned a Certificate of International Law in the school's Master's Program.[5]

In 2007, drawing from his years in Japan, he wrote Afghan–Japan Relations: Lands Under the Rising Sun.[8] The book centers on historical relations and similarities between Japan and Afghanistan, and is the first to directly compare Afghanistan's and Japan's past and cultural heritage.[7]

Awards

  • Freedom, Faith and Hope Medal, Georgetown University, USA (2002)[5]
  • President's Medal, La Salle University, USA (2002)[5]

Death

Amin died of cancer, which had been first diagnosed in 2011, in a Phoenix-area hospital, on February 14, 2015.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Some sources cite 1967.
  2. ^ a b Profile, Afghan-bios.info, November 2, 2009.
  3. ^ "Amin: Northern Alliance will support U.S." CNN.com. September 22, 2001. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  4. ^ "Alliance Advances". PBS. November 12, 2001. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Profile: Haron Amin". Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Tokyo. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  6. ^ Profile, nymag.com; accessed February 25, 2017.
  7. ^ a b c "Former Afghan Diplomat and Ambassador to Japan Dies". TOLO News. February 15, 2015. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  8. ^ Amin, Haron (2007). "Afghan-Japan Relations: Land Under the Rising Sun" (PDF). Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Tokyo. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
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